Students promote local produce and sustainable food at MSU Food Day sponsored by the MSU Department of Sustainability and the Horticulture Farm.
“Beat Michigan” shirts. Smack talk on social media. U-M’s block ‘M’ spray-painted green with “S-U” scrawled next to it. A taxidermied wolverine in a maize and blue vest, hanging by a noose from the back of a van with license plate “ST8 VAN” along with a banner reading, “The only good Wolverine …” parked outside the Starbucks on Grand River Avenue. There’s no mistaking it — it’s Michigan week.
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Before head coach Mark Dantonio took over the MSU football program in 2006,, the MSU-Michigan rivalry was one sided. The Wolverines had won nine of the last 11 games against MSU, including a five-game winning streak before Dantonio joined the Spartan sidelines.
The week leading up to the Michigan football game is typically an emotional one for most Spartan fans, but for the marching band, it’s also a time to participate in a long-standing tradition.Sparty Watch is an annual marching band tradition, during which members of the band gather at the Sparty statue in the week leading up to the Michigan football game.
MSU will head to Illinois this weekend to take on the state’s two Big Ten representatives, Illinois and Northwestern.On Friday night, MSU (9-6-1 overall, 3-6-1 Big Ten)
The volleyball season is heading into the final stretch, and the competition is heating up for the Spartans. MSU (12-7 overall, 5-3 Big Ten) will hit the road to play No. 20 Ohio State (14-6 overall, 5-3 Big Ten) on Friday night and No. 7 Penn State, the defending national champion (18-3 overall, 6-2 Big Ten) on Saturday night.
Rivalry week in Michigan goes beyond the football game being played this Saturday. While most fans of MSU and U-M will still be mentally or verbally preparing themselves on Friday for Saturday’s football game, MSU field hockey will travel to Ann Arbor to take on No. 12 U-M on Friday.
After falling in the main draw at the ITA Midwest Regional Tournament last weekend, the women’s tennis team went back to East Lansing.
Some games can define an entire season, but they usually don’t happen in week seven.Outside the state of Michigan, that is.
For 200, name a classic game show, that consists of three contestants and a series of trivia questions.
The second forum introducing a candidate for director of the Office of International Students and Scholars, or OISS, took place on Monday.
MSU celebrates Campus Sustainability Day by promoting environmental activities for students to engage in, with officials encouraging students to make making simple, green changes in their everyday lives.
A settlement was reached Oct. 16 for a lawsuit filed against the Wayne County Airport Authority because of their decision to move the pick-up and drop-off location for Michigan Flyer, AirRide and the SMART bus to the south end of the Ground Transportation Center (GTC) on Sept. 22.
The men's soccer team (9-3-2 overall, 3-1-1 Big Ten), was shocked by the Oakland Grizzlies (7-5-1 overall, 5-0-1 Horizon), 2-0, on Wednesday night in front of 1902 fans at Oakland.
Oct. 20, 2012 serves as the only time in the last six years MSU wasn’t hoisting Paul Bunyan after the annual rivalry game with Michigan, and it’s still something players haven’t forgotten about.
TIM POTTER:MSU Bikes part of MSU Sustainability, this is Sustainability weekwhat MSU bikes is doing is every day of the week we’re in an diff residential neighborhood offering minor maintenancebrake, shifting, oil for chainsother things like offering my advice helping students with proper fit or talking with them where they ride or bike safety advceI try to make sure people are safe and help them with other issues while working on their bikelast year was first year we’re short staffed this fall so I do as much as I can on my ownI helped about 15 people yesterday with their bikeshopefully I can help even more students with their bikesa lot of times they don't know they need air or oil, I see them ride by and see their tires are soft so I suggest giving them air i can do the same things with bikes as doctorsseats to low, squeaky chains free - it’s a way to give back to community and introduce people to the concept of to maintaining their bikes eventually we may charge through wifi or something but right now it’s free so students should take advantage of itwithin 5 or 10 minutes i can help a bike with minor thigns but minor thigns can turn to major things if the bike has been neglectedit’s good to get it checked out before it falls apart because then it gets bicycling is a great way to get around, you’re not impacting environment at all.enjoy the speed of it and healthcontributes a lot to our whole mission of sustain for the campus and part of the reason w’ere part of sustainability for campus a lot of students don’t ride because it’s getting colder, can stay warmer because it’s exercising it’s not as big of an issue to ride in the cold as people may thinki like to encourage people to keep riding through bad weathergenerally freeVANDENBIL- It’s in a really convenient location I think with the halls over here,” Vandenbil and it's nice and only takes a few minutes out of your day and it lengthens the life of your bikeSITAR- I like riding my bike to class because it’s a lot quicker than walking
It was a weekend of ups and downs for MSU field hockey. On Friday, the Spartans shut out No. 18 Iowa in a 2-0 victory in one of their best complete performances of the year. Coming back on Sunday against No. 11 Northwestern however, MSU had no answer for the Wildcats’ offense and were defeated 5-2.
The volleyball team has enjoyed some success recently, but they aren’t letting it get to their heads.
Want the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum all to yourself for a day? Apparently it'll cost you about $3,000.